This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in … health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income …

This paper offers an approach to assessing quality-of-life, based on Sen's (1985) theory, which it uses to understand ….... We also find evidence that a small number of functionings are higher for those with a disability, as our theory allows …. The paper concludes by discussing possible implications for policy and health assessment methods …

We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i … physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self-employment are largely …

Job insecurity exerts negative effects on self-reported health. Using the Spanish Survey of Household Finances for 2011 …-2014, this paper asks whether and to what extent debt burdens enhance these detrimental health effects. To address potential … that the negative effect of job insecurity on self-assessed health is exacerbated if the individual is over …

, using solely non-subjective data, in a literature from economics (so-called 'compensating differentials' neoclassical theory …

, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes, and mental health). Our undiscounted estimates indicate that the cost of the … most costly domains are cardiovascular disease and mental health, followed by respiratory disease. Our analyses also reveal … of NCDs on labor supply and capital accumulation. We present results for the five main NCDs (cardiovascular disease …

of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic … costs of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone gross domestic product (GDP). Unlike previously adopted frameworks … diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases, diabetes, and mental health conditions). Overall, total losses associated with these …